The 30th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) will be held Thursday, January 3 through Monday, January 14, 2019.
Highlights for the 2019 Palm Springs Film Festival include:
On Thursday, January 3, the annual Film Awards Gala will kick off the festival at the Palm Springs Convention Center. The list of honorees for the 2019 Film Awards Gala, so far, includes:
Rami Malek – Breakthrough Performance Award
Spike Lee – Career Achievement Award
Melissa McCarthy – Spotlight Award
Alfonso Cuarón – Sonny Bono Visionary Award
Green Book – Vanguard Award
Regina King – Chairman’s Award
Glenn Close – Icon Award
Olivia Coleman – Desert Palm Achievement Award – Actress
Bradley Cooper – Director of the Year Award
The 2018 Palm Springs Film Festival, a star-studded event, hosted by Mary Hart, honored Mary J. Blige, Timothée Chalamet, Jessica Chastain, Willem Dafoe, Gal Gadot, Holly Hunter, Allison Janney, Gary Oldman, Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan and The Shape of Water. More than 2,500 guests attend the event which kicks off Awards season. Tickets are now on sale.
The screening portion of the festival will run Friday, January 4 through Monday, January 14. On January 4, the festival will run all day screenings with the official Opening Night screening taking place that evening at Richards Center for the Arts with a party to follow at the Palm Springs Art Museum.
The festival will close on Sunday, January 13, with Best of the Fest screenings taking place Monday, January 14.
Wild About Movies was at the 2018 Palm Springs Film Festival and will return in 2019, to bring you even more coverage.
The Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) is one of the largest film festivals in North America, welcoming 135,000 attendees in 2018 for its lineup of new and celebrated international features and documentaries.
2019 Palm Springs Film Festival. Tim Nasson and Dylan Tracy cover the 2019 Palm Springs Film Festival for WildAboutMovies.
